[Locke]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Don't worry. It wasn't until I was an adult and checked out other 90's series that I learned they were the exceptions, either

For these days, there are a few beyond the ones you named. You have...Um...Well, er...Hmm. You know, I don't know.

So if nothing else, the 90s had greater volumes of exceptions. Even if the general shows nowadays are less censored.

[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by Locke

So if nothing else, the 90s had greater volumes of exceptions. Even if the general shows nowadays are less censored.

That's likely. But with how many cartoons got greenlit, there were a ton of terrible ones that play it safe, so it kind of balances out.

[SPLIT LIP]

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Originally Posted by Locke

and when characters in Batman TAS got hurt, they'd bleed.

BTAS also pushed the envelope on EVERYTHING.

It's last season had a really disturbingly tragic analysis of an abusive relationship. (complete with a woman being pushed through a window and falling several stories, nearly dying, and still taking her abuser back at the first sign of any half-hearted redemption) It's first season had child abuse and child slavery. (and regular slavery) A shitload of really dark and real stories populated the entire run. Hell, even when the DCAU evolved into Justice League into the 2000's, there was an episode where a women was tortured in her dreams and died in real life.

Batman was pretty unique. The 90's flip-flopped between shows that got away with A LOT, and shows that got away with almost nothing. For every Batman, Gargoyles or Beast Wars, there was a show that had nothing but weak lasers, excuses for dodging certain death, and used "destroyed" instead of "killed."

The 90's was, honestly, pretty eradict and hard to pin down WHAT was popular/widespread.

[Thessair]

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Originally Posted by Elie Dekel - Saban Brands

Power Rangers Dino Charge draws on the power of the dinosaurs, which was always a big hit with kids, and is a similar theme to what Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers was all about 21 years ago. Now, we are bringing back the some of that DNA of the original Mighty Morphin' show, and that will be a very exciting season for 2015.

Granted it's just one quote, but it sounds like this will end up being another MMPR nostalgia cash grab.

Source: Jefusion

[Matrixbeast]

Oh boy.
Letting painfully bad takes pass, having a crappy cover of "Go Go Power Rangers" for the song, having the rangers all be white bread cut outs of generic character tropes, and having horrific voice overs during action scenes, all in the name of nostalgia.
:I

[Locke]

The sad thing is, the fandom is pretty equally split between 'original is best' twats who have never seen anything beyond a few MMPR episodes as a child and kids who don't know any better. WE all know the show has been terrible since Saban Brands came back, but we as a fandom are such an insignificant minority our words come out at such a low volume they aren't even heard.

As long as Saban sells toys and has aplogists we're gonna keep getting this shit. Why so many never understand that is truly beyond me, but those 'I'm a "true" Power Rangers fan so I'll even support shit' folks sure are in for a slap in the face when Saban Brands runs the show into the ground and it is a toy only line ten years down the line.

Why did consumers stop demanding quality from their product? When did the internet stop being a place of diverse opinions? When did being validly critical of something stop making you a fan?

[Thessair]

Not entirely related, and someone may have mentioned it already, but I do find it amusing that the villains of Dino Charge are bounty hunters and the Toei Hero Next 4 with the Kyoryuger cast is called 'We are Bounty Hunters'. It seems a weird little coincidence.

[WhiteRanger]

Can also mention saban done the music and was part of saiyan and freezer saga dub and used ocean for production due to funimation went to saban then oceAn production dub on there own in partner with funimation for Marjin buu.

[Guyver Spawn]

I'm not surprise that DC will end up being another MMPR nostalgia cash grab. Dino Thunder was almost the same since people feel like DT was trying to rehash MMPR. I seen some people feel like Abaranger also rehash a few things from Zyuranger.

[Locke]

I think the best 'MMPR Clone' was Ninja Storm, the lack of a single serious moment hurt it but the teenagers didn't feel like aliens like they did in MMPR and it didn't fall apart half way through like Dino Thunder.